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Oklahoma, Texas Take Aim at Overuse of Opioids in Workers’ Comp
Jun 3 2013 // In Texas and Oklahoma the battle against opioid abuse among injured workers is ongoing. Oklahoma in 2012 enacted legislation adopting the Work Loss Data Institute’s Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) as the...
Agents Helping Agents in Recovery from Oklahoma Tornadoes
Jun 3 2013 // Twelve hundred homes damaged or destroyed, 33,000 people impacted and $2 billion in property losses. Those are damage estimates from the deadly F5 tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on May 20, just one day...
More Severe Weather and Tornadoes Forecast For Oklahoma, Ozarks
May 31 2013 // More dangerous weather, spawning baseball-sized hail and tornadoes, was predicted for Oklahoma and parts of the Ozarks on Friday after more than a dozen reported twisters in Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, U.S....
Central U.S. Warned of Severe Storms With Tornadoes, Floods Today
May 31 2013 // Severe thunderstorms, baseball-sized hail, flooding and possibly tornadoes may sweep across parts of Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas today, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center. There’s a 45 percent chance...
Tornadoes Rip Through Oklahoma, Arkansas
May 30 2013 // Severe storms spawned a dozen reported tornadoes in Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, injuring at least five people and sending residents scrambling for cover 10 days after a powerful twister killed 24 people in...
Hurricane Experience Aids Fast-Food Chain In Oklahoma
May 30 2013 // The founder and CEO of a Baton Rouge-based fast-food chain says experience with disasters served the company well after a tornado ravaged Moore, Okla. Todd Graves, of Raising Cane’s, said the chain has about 50...
Oklahoma Tornado Cost Insurers as Much as $3.5 Billion: RMS
May 29 2013 // The tornado that leveled an Oklahoma City suburb last week probably cost insurers $2 billion to $3.5 billion in claims, according to catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions Inc. The estimate includes damage to...
Agents Helping Agents in Recovery from Oklahoma Tornadoes
May 29 2013 // Twelve hundred homes damaged or destroyed, 33,000 people impacted and $2 billion in property losses. Those are damage estimates from the deadly F5 tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore in the afternoon of May...
Officials Clarify Numbers on Oklahoma Tornado Damage
May 28 2013 // Authorities have clarified and significantly downgraded the number of homes damaged or destroyed in the May 20 tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb. Oklahoma City Police Department spokesman Dexter Nelson said on May 23 that...
Oklahoma Commissioner: Insurance Policies to Remain in Place
May 28 2013 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak placed a moratorium on all insurance non-renewals, cancellations and terminations for affected areas in the wake of the tornado and severe storms that occurred in central...
No New Federal Funds Needed for Oklahoma Tornado Recovery
May 24 2013 // Top U.S. lawmakers and officials said that the federal government has plenty of money on hand to pay for recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma. The government has more than $11...
Oklahoma City Mayor: Up to 13K Homes Hit by Tornado
May 24 2013 // Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett says 12,000 to 13,000 homes were affected by the tornado that tore through a city suburb. At least 24 people died when the tornado laid waste to Moore on May 20. The Oklahoma Insurance...
Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Damage Estimated at More than $2B
May 23 2013 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary estimate suggests the cost of the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore could be more than $2 billion. Spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press...
Top 10 U.S. Insurers in Tornado-Stricken States: SNL Financial
May 23 2013 // The Moore, Oklahoma tornado, which killed 24 people, was the deadliest to touch down during a nearly weeklong outbreak across the U.S. Midwest. The states hardest hit have been Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma,...
Oklahoma Commissioner: 4K Home, Auto Claims from Twisters So Far
May 22 2013 // More than 4,000 home and auto claims have been filed as a result of the recent spate of tornadoes in Oklahoma. That number is expected to rise, according to Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak. Doak has previously...
Oklahoma Schools Destroyed by Tornado Lacked ‘Safe Rooms’
May 22 2013 // In Moore, Oklahoma, an area residents call Tornado Alley because it’s struck by more ferocious twisters than anywhere in the U.S., two schools destroyed by yesterday’s storm lacked “safe room”...
Oklahoma Tornado Damage Likely to Exceed Joplin – Commissioner
May 21 2013 // The damage from Monday’s tornado in a suburb of Oklahoma City is likely to exceed that caused by the 2011 twister in Joplin, Missouri, that killed 161 people, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said. In an...
Update: Oklahoma Tornado Was EF5
May 21 2013 // A new assessment by the National Weather Service indicates peak winds in the tornado that hit the Newcastle/Moore Okla., area on May 20 reached the 200 mph to 210 mph range, putting it into the classification of an EF5...
‘Major Disaster’ Declared in Wake of Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes
May 21 2013 // An estimated EF4 tornado with a wind range of up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Okla., on May 20, leaving behind massive devastation and at least 24 confirmed dead. Earlier media reports...
Texas, Oklahoma Battle Opioids With Legislation
May 20 2013 // Editor’s Note: This is part of a team report on opioid use by injured workers. For the national story read: Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers’ Comp In the South Central region, Texas and Oklahoma are two states...
